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John Ruskin - Budding Sycamore

Budding Sycamore (c. 1876)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
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John Ruskin

John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, as well as an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, philosopher, prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy.

His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. He wrote essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. He also made detailed sketches and paintings of rocks, plants, birds, landscapes, architectural structures and ornamentation.

The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art gave way in time to plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. In all of his writing, he emphasised the connections between nature, art and society.

He was hugely influential in the latter half of the 19th century and up to the First World War. After a period of relative decline, his reputation has steadily improved since the 1960s with the publication of numerous academic studies of his work. Today, his ideas and concerns are widely recognised as having anticipated interest in environmentalism, sustainability and craft.

Ruskin first came to widespread attention with the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), an extended essay in defence of the work of J. M. W. Turner in which he argued that the principal role of the artist is "truth to nature". From the 1850s, he championed the Pre-Raphaelites, who were influenced by his ideas. His work increasingly focused on social and political issues. Unto This Last (1860, 1862) marked the shift in emphasis. In 1869, Ruskin became the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford, where he established the Ruskin School of Drawing. In 1871, he began his monthly "letters to the workmen and labourers of Great Britain", published under the title Fors Clavigera (1871–1884). In the course of this complex and deeply personal work, he developed the principles underlying his ideal society. As a result, he founded the Guild of St George, an organisation that endures today.

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The Borghese Gardens

The Borghese Gardens (ca. 1840)

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Distant View of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville

Distant View of Saint-Wulfran, Abbeville

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Sketch of Foliage

Sketch of Foliage (ca. 1853)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Gezicht op S. Anastasia te Verona, over de Adige

Gezicht op S. Anastasia te Verona, over de Adige (1829 - 1900)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Swiss Mountain Landscape

Swiss Mountain Landscape

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
View of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius

View of the Bay of Naples and Vesuvius (1840)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Old Houses on the Rhône Island, Geneva

Old Houses on the Rhône Island, Geneva (1862-63)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
A View of Susa, Italy, from the West

A View of Susa, Italy, from the West (1858)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Study of Trees

Study of Trees (17th century)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Rocky Mountains, Canada

Rocky Mountains, Canada

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Italian mountain scene

Italian mountain scene (1833-1888)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Examples of Architecture of Venice – The Ducal Palace, Renaissance Capitals of the Loggia

Examples of Architecture of Venice – The Ducal Palace, Renaissance Capitals of the Loggia (1887)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland

The Valley of Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland (ca. 1866)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Lauffenburg on the Rhine

Lauffenburg on the Rhine (1863)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
Naples

Naples (1841)

John Ruskin (English, 1819-1900)
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